Swarup Roy
Professor in Computer Science at Sikkim University (A Central University of India), Sikkim, India. He worked as Assistant Professor in IT at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (A Central University of India) for 11+ years. He received his M.Tech. in Information Technology and PhD (Comp. Sc. & Engg.) in the area of Data Mining and Computational Biology from Tezpur (Central) University, Tezpur, India. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati.
He has published a number of papers in leading international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings and authored three (03) books including topics on Data Science & Biological Network Analysis . He is a recipient of the Best Doctoral Thesis Award from IIT-Roorkee during Intl. conf. SocProS2013 and University Gold Medal for securing the first position during M.Tech. He also received Overseas Research Associate-ship from DBT, Govt. Of India in 2015 to conduct research in the foreign laboratory and funding from DST-SERB to visit SPAIN in 2012 to present his research paper. He is in the technical committee and reviewer of various international conferences and reputed international journals including-
Nature- Scientific Reports
IEEE /ACM Trans. Computational Biology & Bioinformatics,
PLoS Computational Biology,
Elsevier-Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
BMC- System Biology
BMC-Bioinformatics and many.
Professional Achievements and Roles
A. Guest-Editor: Frontier-Bioinformatics/ Network Bioinformatics ( Special Issue: "Graph Representation Learning in Biological Networks")
B. Guest-Editor: MDPI-Data (Special Issue: "Big Network Inference, Integration and Analysis for Precision Medicine (BigDataNetAnalysis)") [ https://www.mdpi.com/journal/data/special_issues/BigDataNetAnalysis ]
C. Taught undergraduate and graduate students of computer science at the University of Colorado at CS, USA as a visiting professor, comprised of students from nearly 56 different countries.
D. Track Co-Chair for Biological Modelling at 8th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) 2017, Boston, USA.
E. Dept of Sc. & Technology (DST-ICPS)-Govt. of India enlisted as one of the subject experts in the area of Data Science.
PhD Supervision
1. Dr. Keshab Nath (Awarded-2019)-Assistant Professor in CSE, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Kottayam
Thesis Title: Community Mining in Large Social Graphs using Machine Learning Approach
2. Dr. Syed Sazzad Ahmed (Awarded-2020) -Assistant Professor in CSE. Don Bosco University, Guwahati
Title: Inference and Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks using Data Mining Techniques
3. Dr. Monica Jha (Awarded-2020)-Assistant Professor in CSE, GITAM University, Bangaluru
Title: Functional Module Extraction from Gene Expression Data using Data Mining Techniques
4. Ms Hazel Manner (2016 to till) NEHU, Shillong
Title: Designing Computational Methods For Analyzing Multiple Biological Networks
5. Mrs Lekhika Chettri (2019 to till)-Assistant Professor, Sikkim (Central) University
Title: Designing Machine Learning based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Internet of Things (IoT)
6. Ms Softya Sebastian (2019 to till)-Research Scholar at Sikkim (Central) University
Title: Towards Inference and Analysis of Large-Scale Gene Regulatory Networks
7. Mr Binon Teji (2020 to till)-Research Scholar at Sikkim (Central) University
Title: Representation Learning in Heterogeneous, Complex and Multimodal Biological Networks
8. Mr Dasari Anantha Reddy (2020 to till)-Research Scholar at NIT-Raipur
Title: Towards Designing of Effective Detection Engine for Skin Disease Diagnosis
9. Mrs Saroj D Ghadle (2020 to till)-Research Scholar at NIT-Raipur
Title: Network Biology Approach for Prioritizing Possible Disease Responsible Genes
Area of Interest
Data Science, Computational Biology, Soft Computing and Machine learning.
Research Collaborations
Collaborations (International):
1. School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA
2. University of Catanzaro, Italy
3. University of Colorado, Colorado Spring. USA
4. McKendree University, Illinois, USA
5. Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
6. Regis University, Denver, USA
7. Umm Alqura University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Collaborations (India):
1. Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
3. Tezpur University, Tezpur
Course Handled
Handled courses in PhD, M.Tech., B.Tech and MCA level:
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Bioinformatics
Algorithm Analysis & Design
Objected Oriented Modelling
Advanced Database System
Relational Database Management System
Software Engineering
Data Structure
Programming (C, C++, Java, Python)
Operating System
Research Methodology (PhD)